- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
I'm reasonably certain you are wrong here, for all but the most severe abuse (jeepspeed, etc.) That cast-in mount is pretty damn strong.
The reason most 3 link kits have you cut it off is so you can use a proper heim joint (or similar) instead of a pressed in bushing.
:nono:oh and you don't need to run a bridge to run a flex joint
Yeah, I see what you're getting at but I have never seen a broken driver side mount, nor can I find any evidence of it ever happening on google. And I endo'd my jeep (hammered on the throttle going up a 3-4 foot ledge, rear axle ended up 4 feet in the air) without damaging the driver side upper mount at all, even though I folded the passenger side upper mount like tinfoil and ripped the driver side lower mount entirely off the axle housing.